Word: clashed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cloak of secrecy which has concealed the names of the Crimson backfield which is slated to get the call for the opening clash of the season has finally been withdrawn and the gentlemen of the press who are covering Harvard football may once again lapse temporarily back into the even tenor of their ways. Not for some time have the University coaches had such a promising array of ball-carriers from which to choose a couple of versatile quartets. But it is safe to say that those who answer the referees starting whistle tomorrow may well be forced to give...
...Fenway. Park. Coaches Horween, Dunne, Hubbard, and Farrell, H. W. Clark, Director of Athletics W. J. Bingham and Manager Lage are all going to Dartmouth to see the Green tackle Norwich, while Coaches Casey, Knox, and Kennard are traveling to West Point to scout the Army--B. U. clash...
Thus far no heavy contact work has been done. Coach French and his aids limiting the activities of the first-year players to conditioning exercises. French yesterday announced that there would be a cut in the squad today and that serious preparation for the opening clash would then get under way. The coaches have spent most of their time getting a line on prospective material among the former schoolboy players...
...consumers. Behind him strode the body of the Democrats and their allies, Republican irregulars trooping after General Borah (of Idaho). This army too had its stragglers, Democrats here and there greedy for tariff spoils to enrich their home states. So all came at last to battle. Skirmish. The first clash echoed only with the rattle of small arms, yet that first skirmish was a matter of high import in the strategy, for in it Field Marshal Simmons secured a vantage point that secured his main line of communications. He proposed that either the minority or the majority of the finance...
...Soviet news TASS (telegraph agency of the Soviet State) reported: "Chinese troops unexpectedly opened artillery and rifle fire on Soviet border troops in the Grodekov-Poltaskoya district, in the Nikolsk region [on the 'eastern front' near Vladivostok]." The Chinese version of this clash described it as a "Soviet invasion" by infantry and bombing planes. The Japanese Rengo correspondent at Harbin, Manchuria (300 miles from the scene) probably hazarded as good a guess as anyone's as to what happened when he cabled : "There was hard fighting with considerable loss on both sides which continued for 20 hours...